Getting eyeballed and catcalled can be annoying, but I’d be WAY more pissed off if no one ever noticed at all. Think of it that way. Once the construction guys stop hollering, you know you’ve lost it. 
Heh. When they holler at me, I think they must be joking.
It must be nice to be so hot that random guys can’t control themselves.
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If there was true chemistry, maybe. But it has to be a “I enjoyed talking to you, here is my number, give me a call if you want to go for coffee or something sometime.” It CANNOT be a comment on my appearance - that comes off as sleezy - like WhyNot, I have great eyes, commenting on them will put you in the sleezebucket. Using words like “hot” will put you in the sleeze bucket. I really want to live under the illusion that you started to talk to me because you are friendly, and want to continue to talk to me because I’m interesting - and my physical attributes have nothing to do with this.
But, in all honesty (I’ve been married for years and years now), I only ever dated people I’d been “properly introduced to.” People I met at parties or through friends or occationally people met at work or church or organizations. All other invitations seemed sleezy. I met my husband at prom and we were friends for over ten years before we started dating.
I am not a lady (nor even female), and am now married…
However, when I was single this worked for me:
Introduce yourself to her. If she stops to talk with you/acts reasonable friendly, ask for her phone number.
Simple, much less obtrusive and stressful than asking a stranger out and, IMO, has some style.
Just a note that if you limit yourself to smokin’ hot/beautiful, you’re bypassing a lot of gems, many of whom are quite nice looking (I know attractiveness is not totally unimportant). And the real “hotties” have had to endure a lot of come-ons and protect themselves from them, which can make it harder for anyone to get a foot in the door.
What you want is a hot girl who doesn’t know she’s hot. If you can find one of those, you’re golden.
My favorite story from my time in DC. I worked at a social service agency so I was used to the homeless guys anyway, and I had cultivated the don’t-speak-walk-purposefully mode of city foot travel.
So I’m striding down N Capitol St and a homeless guy falls in step next to me.
HG: Can I ask you a question?
GG: As long as it doesn’t have to do with money.
HG: Can I make love to you?
GG: No!
HG: Why? I don’t have AIDS or anything.
GG: Nah.
HG: Well, well, how about a quarter then?
Sounds like a pretty suave homeless man to me.
Isn’t this what they make tasers for? I mean, seriously, wouldn’t it make you feel just 100% better to be able, just once, to make a guy say, “Hey, baby, let’s go to my place right now and GAAAHHHHHHH!!! MAKEITSTOP MAKEITSTOP MAKEITSTOP!! YAAAAAAHHHHH!!!”
Yeah, I know. Betcha’ you’d like to, though, huh?
I didn’t mean to imply the sexism inherent in the term “smokin’ hot”; I think most women I see are beautiful, even if they don’t necessarily conform to the typical standards of beauty.
Unfortunately, though, I need that physical attraction to exist in order to date a woman. I’ve met many women who were sweet and nice and funny, but they didn’t send that electric current down my spine. It might be objectifying to say that I like legs and ass, but, well, I’m just dissapointed if I start to date a girl who doesn’t have great legs and ass. And, for better or worse, I’ll never really puruse the relationship.
Obviously, the staying power of a relationship is more then just physical appearance. Sarcastic humor and brilliant repartee mean more then physical attributes ever could. But physical attributes are important enough that they initiate my interest in finding out if you’re funny and smart. It might be a shame that the only reason I’m flirting with you in line is because you have an amazing body, but that’s what is going to initiate my interest.
I’m going to go and read up on the sexism GD thread now
There’s nothing wrong with needing that spark of physical attraction. I would bet everyone does. That’s what catches your attention, after all. I fully admit that it does in my case. It’s just when it seems like that’s all someone is interested in that it’s objectionable to some. OK, so I have great legs and pretty eyes. Find out something else about me that doesn’t have to do with my looks and go on that, too.
(The implied “you” is a general one here.)
Amen to that. I see my concern that you might be too picky was unfounded.
Oh, believe me, they want her to converse with a certain serpent…
Well? Do ya?
That explains all the guys who used to flat-out ask me, “Hey, babe, if I asked nicely, would you blow me?”
Like a one-eyed trouser eel?
I got a lion in my pocket, and baby he’s ready to roar.
BTW, I always read Atomicktom as Atomickmom and get very disconcerted by how “her” mind works! 
I was actually thinking about starting this exact same thread. I walk around by myself all the time, and I live in one of the sketchier areas of the city, so it’s gotten to the point where I’ve become used to it. Most guys are pretty nice about it. They just say something like “Hey, gorgeous, can I take you out?” and I just smile and shake my head and move on. There have been a handful of creepy incidents - the most notable being when a guy yelled at me from his car, then drove ahead of me, PARKED, and then started following me down the street. “I just wanna TALK!” he yelled as I scurried away. Honestly - I wanted to ask him, “Has that EVER worked for you? Even once?”
There was actually one guy that I almost called back. I was standing at a bus stop when a very loud and expensive-looking car with flashing blue lights roared past me. I mentally noted how annoying said car was. Then the car stopped, backed up, parked, and the driver got out and started going on and on about he saw me and needed to stop because I was so lovely etc., etc. He was actually pretty cute and was quite polite - gave me his business card with his number on it - but to be honest, the fact that he was driving a car with flashing lights and the stereo turned up to 11 made me decide not to call him.
Anyway, I guess I find the attention flattering, as long as the guys aren’t too creepy about it. 
And don’t seriously expect me to respond.
I’m happily and monogamously married, so this thread and this discussion are really academic as far as I’m concerned, but I’d still like to ask:
Why?
I mean, if a guy asks you out, he thinks you’re physically attractive. You know this. If a woman asked me out, I would assume that it was, in part, because she finds me physically attractive. Doesn’t have to be all there is to it - although in the vast majority of cases where someone asks someone else out without having a previous relationship, it’s going to be most of what there is to it - but it has to be there. Why would you prefer to deny this?
Why create a situation where a guy has to be all coy about the fact that he thinks you have pretty eyes? What benefit, what advantage, to either of you, accrues from that way of being?
You’d think a policeman would know better.